author : mantaro
date posted : July 2008
located about 60km from Kuching city and 4km from Sarawak/Indonesia boundary,sarikin is a must visit location if you come to Kuching. Your trip wont complete without visiting Sarikin.it takes about 1 hour to reach Sarikin from Kuching city center and its only open on weekend(from Saturday morning to 3pm on Sunday)
** parking area once you arrive there, totally full and it might take half an hour for you to find parking space especially on Sunday morning.
if you went to kelantan, for sure you don't want to miss a trip to Rantau Panjang, the same thing at sarikin, the only different is all the traders are Indonesian, visitor comes as far as Miri, Bintulu ,Sibu and Peningsular Malaysia just to buy good. In my opinion,there are three reason why people like to go to sarikin, first is because of cheap and reasonable price (just imagine, you can buy "tikar sarawak" at RM 78 at sarikin, at Kuching, the price is RM 180++, and once it reach semenanjung malaysia, this matt will cost you about RM 350++ to owned it).
** So crowded with people..
** among goods that available and can be bought with cheap price at Sarikin.
Secondly is because of the item that you can find here, beside a normal item such as tshirt, sarong, kebaya and other, at the same time you can find a rare and antique item which is hard to be found in the market, and the price is also reasonable; and the third reason is because of woman (don't miss understand), they are shopaholic,since there is a lot of women item sell at cheap price and good quality( replica hand back, purse, kebaya, kurung etc,) this area become their shopping heaven, and I've seen a few of them who's spend a few thousand on their trip to Sarikin.
